In the century following Colum Cille’s death in 597, new monasteries were founded at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, Rathlin Island, Innisboffin (County Galway) and in the lands of the Picts in Scotland.

The population of corncrakes on Rathlin Island is being "positively" maintained with the help of an annual nettle dig, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has said. Since the ...

The population of corncrakes on Rathlin Island is being "positively" maintained with the help of an annual nettle dig, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has said. Since the 1970s, ...

The nettle rhizomes are dug up during the winter months The population of corncrakes on Rathlin Island is being "positively" maintained with the help of an annual nettle dig, the Royal Society for ...

Rathlin Island is one of the few places left in Northern Ireland where you will hear the sound of a corncrake. Since the 1970s, the corncrake population has hugely declined leading to them ...

If we don’t pass these stories down, they won’t know and won’t care and because we don’t enough, is one of the reasons I feel ...

For many, a day trip out to the island is a great way to spend time, but did you know that for years, it wasn't easy for the ...

Hayden Island has borne several names. For four decades, it was best known for the Jantzen Beach amusement park. Today, a spread-out shopping center and residential neighborhood inhabit the same sandy ...

The photo of U.S. Marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi after the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima against ...

As one of the original 13 colonies, Rhode Island is home to many historic buildings, from libraries to restaurants to schools - and that does not just apply to the state's many longstanding ...